yahya-jammeh
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The Gambia stands at a precipice. Last month, in a WhatsApp audio message played to supporters in his home village, former dictator Yahya Jammeh proclaimed he would return this November after nearly nine years in exile. “Nobody can prevent me from coming in,” he declared, invoking a purported agreement that initially facilitated his departure. In…
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The Gambia stands at a political precipice, caught between a painful past and an uncertain future. The source of this crisis is a surreal, modern-day proclamation: a WhatsApp audio recording from exiled former dictator Yahya Jammeh, broadcast to a crowd in his home village of Kanilai, in which he declared his intention to return this…
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Exiled autocrat’s promised return tests a fragile democracy In a move that has sent political shockwaves through West Africa, former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh has announced from his exile in Equatorial Guinea that he intends to return to the country he ruled with an iron fist for 22 years. His declaration last month was ominously…
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